e-mail, attaching photos

My scanned photos will not email. I have been scanning photos and then trying to attach them to my emails. I have a new epson scanner. I have tried scanning and cropping them with the Photo Suite program and with Windows 98, Imaging. With" imaging" the photos are just the size I want but after I save them they are large again. Photos I have on a disk seem to email fine as long as I do one at a time, but any photos I scan are taking forever to email (hours).
I have a new computer, AMD 1700, 128MB RAM, 40GB.

 

Hi Barbara!

I've found that there are only two things you really need to know about scanning and e-mailing photos (or any scanned data).

1] Always scan with the resolution set at 100. This will deliver the same size scanned image as the original.

2] Always save the scanned image using the jpg format. This will reduce the size of it so it will be sent faster. (quality is still good)


Use those two parameters and you'll solve most of your image/e-mail problems. Later, experiment with increasing the resolution gradually to see what happens. That works well when needing to expand an image but there are certain limits beyond which you won't gain anything.

Lastly, reducing or increasing the size of any image after scanning it causes a loss of fidelity that is not acceptable in most cases. Try to scan it at the right size initially and forget all the minipulations afterwards.

Regards

 

Thanks, Zephyr. Unfortunately I have done all those things.
Anymore suggestions??

 

Yes Barbara, I do...

This guy has the best user info for scanning that I am aware of.

http://www.scantips.com/basics1c.html

Take a read there and let me know if it help you out. I'll sit here and scratch my head in the meantime, since I already told you all I knew. (didn't take long)

 

Photo scanning

Thanks for all your help. That website was a help and I finally
found a manual way to adjust the pixels on my pictures I scan.
Barbara